25 Signs That Middle Class Families Have Been Targeted For Extinction

Like so many, I've felt for a long time now that the Middle Class has been targeted for elimination, or at the very least one heckuva neutering. For
TPTB the scariest thing in the world I believe is a strong, vibrant Middle Class and that just doesn't sit well with them. So it has seemed that for
many years now they have tried to diminish the Middle Class and as of late it appears as though they've suceeded.

Came upon this list today and browsed over it and just kind of thought to myself, "Well...there it is".

Look over the list and let me know what your thoughts are. Links to backup the statistics are included in the original article linked at the
bottom.

I'll need to double-post due to the length of the list, so here is the link which I'll post again at the end:

The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don’t even realize what is happening.

#SNIP#

There are three key factors that are constantly chipping away at the middle class….
-Globalization
-Inflation
-Taxes

#SNIP#

If America wants to be great again, it is going to need a thriving middle class. But right now the federal government and the big corporations are
gobbling up all of the power and all of the money and the middle class is shrinking rapidly.

The following are 25 signs that middle class families have been targeted for extinction….

#1 Over the past several decades, millions upon millions of middle class Americans have been systematically turned into government dependents.
Back in 1960, social welfare benefits made up approximately 10 percent of all salaries and wages. In the year 2000, social welfare benefits made up
approximately 21 percent of all salaries and wages. Today, social welfare benefits make up approximately 35 percent of all salaries and wages.

#2 Unemployment is at epidemic levels and the vast majority of the new jobs that have been “created” in recent years have been low paying jobs.
Of those Americans that do have a job at this point, one out of every four works a job that pays $10 an hour or less.

#3 The “working poor” is a group that is rapidly growing in this country. If you can believe it, the United States actually has a higher
percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.

#4 Over the past several decades, the percentage of low income jobs has steadily increased. Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United
States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.

#5 The way that our economic system is structured today, almost all of the economic rewards go to the very top of the food chain. The following is
how income gains in the United States were distributed during 2010….
-37 percent of all income gains went to the top 0.01 percent of all income earners
-56 percent of all income gains went to the rest of the top 1 percent
-7 percent of all income gains went to the bottom 99 percent

#6 Several decades ago, there was a much more even distribution of income in this country. Back in the 1970s, the top 1 percent of all income earners
brought in about 8 percent of all income. Today, they bring in about 21 percent of all income.

#7 As the middle class shrinks, the number of “low income” and “poor” Americans is rapidly rising. Today, approximately 48 percent of all
Americans are currently either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.

#8 Manufacturing jobs once enabled huge numbers of Americans to enjoy a middle class lifestyle. Unfortunately, those jobs are leaving this country at
a breathtaking pace. Back in 1940, 23.4% of all American workers had manufacturing jobs. Today, only 10.4% of all American workers have
manufacturing jobs.

#9 In the old days, any man that was willing to work hard and wanted a job could get one. Today, there are millions of American men sitting on their
couches at home wondering why nobody will hire them. Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than
65 percentof all men in the United States have jobs.

#10 The middle class is shrinking at the same time that America is getting poorer as a nation. In the middle of the last century, the United States
was #1 in the world in GDP per capita. Today, the United States is #13 in GDP per capita.

#11 Every year now, we see millions of Americans fall out of the middle class. In 2010, 2.6 million more Americans descended into poverty. That was
thelargest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

#12 The shrinking middle class is having a disproportionate impact on children. At this point, approximately 22 percent of all American children are
living in poverty.

#13 In the old days, most Americans grew up in middle class neighborhoods. Sadly, this is no longer true. In 1970, 65 percent of all Americans lived
in “middle class neighborhoods”. By 2007, only 44 percent of all Americans lived in “middle class neighborhoods”.

#14 The concentration of wealth at the very top of the food chain is astounding. Right now, over 50 percent of all stocks and bonds are owned by just
1 percentof the U.S. population.

#15 When you concentrate too much power in the hands of the federal government and the big corporations, it is inevitable that massive amounts of
wealth will become concentrated in just a few hands. In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth
than the bottom 90 percent combined.

#16 There is nothing wrong with making money, but there is something wrong with a game where individuals and small businesses cannot compete fairly.
According to Forbes, the 400 wealthiest Americans now have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.

#17 When the number of poor people rapidly expands in a society, that is a recipe for social unrest. At this point, the poorest 50 percent of all
Americans collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.

#18 The hidden tax of inflation is absolutely devastating middle class families all over America. Since 1970, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 83
percent of its value. Any dollars that middle class families try to save are constantly losing a little bit more value every single day.

#19 American workers that try to play by the rules find that they are constantly fighting a losing battle. According to one study, between 1969 and
2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 droppedby 27 percent after you account for inflation.

#20 In recent years, many middle class families have seen their paychecks get smaller. Median household income in the United States has fallen 7.8
percentsince December 2007 after adjusting for inflation.

#21 In recent years, many middle class families have seen many of their basic expenses absolutely soar. For example, health insurance costs have
risen by 23 percent since Barack Obama became president.

#22 Just turning on the lights and heating their homes has become a major burden for many middle class families. Electricity bills in the United
States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.

#23 Just putting gas in the car has become a major financial ordeal for millions of hard working Americans. The average price of a gallon of gasoline
in the United States has increased by more than 100 percent since Barack Obama became president.

#24 Sadly, government dependence is now at an all-time high, and that is the way that many among the elite like it. When Barack Obama took office,
there were 32 million Americans on food stamps. Now, there are more than 46 million Americans on food stamps. In particular, an astounding number of
children are on food stamps right now. At this point, approximately one-fourthof all American children are enrolled in the food stamp program.

#25 Many middle class families will not be in the middle class for too much longer. According to a shocking new study from the National Bureau of
Economic Research, 200,000 U.S. households will use the money from their tax refunds this year “to pay for bankruptcy filing and legal fees“.

The middle class folks are now classified as low-income folks. That's where the middle class is going.

I have two college degrees, live within my means, and still struggle paycheck to paycheck. I;m a teacher, that paycheck is pretty small to begin
with. We've had no raise or cost of living adjustment in the last three years. At the same time, insurance costs are rising, along with everything
else (gas, food, gas, clothes, gas, and gas).

In 1991, I was at a seminar and I was talking with this guy who happened to be very wealthy. He called a j.o.b. ''journey of the broke'', and he
told me that within 15 to 20 years, there would hardly be a middle class. Looks like he knew what he was talking about.

I have little sympathy for the middle class. For the most part, through unionization and just general complacency, they have perpetuated problems of
consumption and unsustainable lifestyle, buying into the system without looking at the writing on the wall.

In other words, we have watched the 'middle class' since WW2 buy in to a system that will ultimately only use them. So they emulate the rich who
employ them, buy houses and cars they cant afford, and go deeeeep into debt to pay for it, instead of investing in creating a strong, sustainable
community around them.

The middle classes and their values are what keeps the social order in place and restrains the excesses of the elites - and that is why the NWO has
eliminated them.

In the 1920s and 1930s Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who argued that traditional values must be obliterated in order to free "oppressed"
social groups, called for eliminating social decorum and glorifying perverse behavior in order to destroy the Western middle class and collapse
society from within. Translated into today's terminology, the plan prescribed the commandeering of news and entertainment media, religious and
financial institutions, organized labor, health care, and education.

Gramsci's cultural Marxism began to reach throughout society when Frankfurt University's Institute for Marxism -- renamed the Institute for Social
Research and informally called the Frankfurt School -- fled Nazi Germany, took up temporary residence at Columbia University in 1933, and then, during
World War II, began using Gramsci-derived "critical theory" to "deconstruct" American society.

German-born philosopher-writer Herbert Marcuse and other Marxists carried cultural Marxism beyond Columbia, and progressives adopted the disease as a
weapon of "change" to be deployed within the education system.

It already IS a dictatorship here in the USA. Obama signed himself King via NDAA on 12/31/2011 (new years eve). And yea, he's a puppet of the
British royalty put there by the banking elites. 1% Tyranny via a dictator. If he can't manipulate the masses to think the fake election favors him
he'll simply declare another emergency or even create another inside job like his predecessor did.

Leave the USA? And go where, Cuba?

Just more Satanic puppets run by the money changers who never moved out of the Temple - remember?
They even had Jesus crucified. Its happening to the rest of us now - since the Bill Gates population reduction plan is in full operation... its in
your food, your water, your air, its your death - hope you're ready to meet your makers.

My husband and I are planning on relocating to Canada then maybe to Portugal or Argentina. My husband almost died a year ago because we did not have
insurance. The message was clear get out if you want to survive.

I agree with you 100% on that....overspending and feeling entitled has made a mess of the poor and middle class..

I also believe the housing mess and getting everyone brainwashed into thinking you have to have a college degree should be on this list. That's why
people don't want to work regular jobs...everyone thinks they should be ceo...no one wants be entry level anymore.....and that doesn't
work....someone has to do these jobs that don't require college degrees. So all these people spent years in college instead of getting life
experience and are in debt thousands to hundreds of thousands before they even start in the real world. And most jobs will never pay enough to get
these people out of debt.

Then the housing crisis came....the everyone should be able to have a house mentality put people in homes they can never pay for...so they lose the
houses then either rich flippers pick them up for cheap. It's all redistribution meant to get rid of a middle class.

TPTB want 2 classes...the haves and the have nots.....the elites and the worker bees or serfs.

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